TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mine Krause
AU  - Yan SUN
AU  - Michael Steppat
PY  - 2020
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783631789520
TI  - Honor, Face, and Violence
T2  - Cross-Cultural Literary Representations of Honor Cultures and Face Cultures
DO  - 10.3726/b17278
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1057424
N2  - Honor-related values are a source of gendered inequality and of violence. In so-called honor cultures, traditionally located in parts of the Middle East, Mediterranean regions, North Africa, and South America, honor translates into women’s roles as dictated by family ideology. There is a direct link between male reputation and the female body. In these matters, East Asian face cultures are similar to but also different from honor cultures. For the first time, this book studies literary together with sociological representations of the loss of honor and of face. Fiction explores honor-based values which impose shackles not only on female but also on male society members. The book is endorsed with prefaces by Turkish writer Sema Kaygusuz and Chinese scholar Ma Chi.
LA  - English
ER  -